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    and charset informations if available.</li>
  <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
    zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
  <li>Python bindings (St閜hane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
  output</li>
  <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
    convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
    Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher,  Igor),
    Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc),  beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
    warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
    'Shard' Konicki)</li>
  <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
    tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li>
  <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
    mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase,  SAX/IO (William), compression detection
    and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
    on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
    namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
    (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
    Derr), high codepoint charref like &amp;#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
    mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
    (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
    error handling.</li>
  <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
    testing,  --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
    replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous  namespace
    declarations</li>
  <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li>
  <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
    xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
    allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
    on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
  <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li>
  <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
  <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
    parser instead.</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul><li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li>
  <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul><li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li>
  <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li>
  <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
    on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
  <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li>
  <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li>
  <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li>
  <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
  <li>and a couple other cleanup</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
    (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
    (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
    xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling,  EXSLT (Sean
    Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
    content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
    progressive HTML parser</li>
  <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li>
  <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li>
  <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li>
  <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li>
  <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li>
  <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li>
  <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li>
  <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
  Brack)</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
    Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
    PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
    Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
    rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
    xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
  <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li>
  <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li>
  <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li>
  <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic,  Eric Zurcher), threading (St閜hane
    Bidoul)</li>
  <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li>
  <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li>
  <li>Python bindings for thread globals (St閜hane Bidoul), and method/class
    generator</li>
  <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li>
  <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
    xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
  <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li>
  <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li>
  <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li>
  <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
    (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
    and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
    behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
    error conditions</li>
  <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
    allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
    accordingly.</li>
  <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
    xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
  <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li>
  <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
    binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
  <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
    XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
    Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
  <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li>
  <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li>
  <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
    errors</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
    DocBook and TEI examples.</li>
  <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li>
  <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li>
  <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
    conversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
  <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li>
  <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
    implementation</li>
  <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
  <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
    namespaces,
    <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
    generation problem.</p>
  </li>
  <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
  <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
  <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
    version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
  <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
    serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
  serialization</li>
  <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
  <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
  <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
    delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (St閜hane Bidoul),
    XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
    consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
  namespaces</li>
  <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
  <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
    patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
  <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
  <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
    (St閜hane Bidoul)</li>
  <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
  <li>documentation updates (John)</li>
  <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
    API (with help of St閜hane Bidoul)</li>
  <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
  <li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
  <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (St閜hane Bidoul),
    drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (St閜hane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
    and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
  <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
  (John)</li>
  <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
  <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
  <li>Entities handling fixes</li>
  <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
  Schroeder)</li>
  <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li>
</ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul><li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
  <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
    fixes.</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
    (St閜hane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
  <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
  <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
  <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
    dump</li>
  <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
  <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
  <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
  <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
    more informations needed for C# bindings</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul><li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
  <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
  <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
  <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
  <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li>
  <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
  <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
  <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
    HTML parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
    (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
    xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
    Pajas), entities processing</li>
  <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
  <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
  <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
    better thread support on Windows</li>
  <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
  <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>